Stratagem of the Corpse - Dying With Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra

Stratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.

List of contents

Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 On Decay and Other Synthetics; Chapter 2 Stratagem of the Corpse; Chapter 3 A Bleak Non-History of History; Chapter 4 The Hyperactivity of Objects; Chapter 5 The Unnamable Catastrophe; Chapter 6 A Cure For Vertigo; Chapter 7 Chance and the Temporality of Death; Chapter 8 The Possibility of Nihilism; Chapter 9 Smell-O-Vision: The Murder Show; Chapter 10 The Evil Death; Chapter 11 False Confessions and the Madness of Death: Making Death Speak; Chapter 12 The Black Light: Nigredo and Catastrophe; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Index.

About the author

Gary J. Shipley, independent scholar and writer, is the author of ten books, and has published widely in literary journals, academic journals and anthologies. He has taught philosophy at the University of Kent.

Product details

• Authors: Gary J Shipley
• Assisted by: William Pawlet (Foreword)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781785272752
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-275-2
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Anthem Series on Radical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism